Mountain farmers : moral economies of land & agricultural development in Arusha & Meru

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Mountain farmers : moral economies of land & agricultural development in Arusha & Meru

Thomas Spear

University of California Press, 1997 , James Curry, 1997

  • : cloth.
  • : pbk.
  • : J.Curry : cloth.
  • : J.Curry : pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 242-256

Includes index

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Volume

: cloth. ISBN 9780520206182

Description

This is the first extended study of one of the most historically and culturally interesting regions of Tanzania in East Africa. Mountain Farmers is a detailed comparative history of two ethnic groups who share one mountain home--the Meru are traditionally farmers; the Arusha cattle-herders related to the Maasai. Thomas Spear's engaging study, based on recent archival and field research, ranges across several centuries of political and economic history, comparing the responses of these very different peoples to the settlement of Mount Meru, to colonial conquest, and to increasing land shortages. Spear moves away from models of social history that tend toward economic determinism, and instead seeks to understand the role of culture in socio-economic change. As he traces the history of settlement on Mt. Meru since the seventeenth century, Spear focuses on the coming of colonizers and missionaries and local resistance to them; the transition from German to British colonial rule; colonial struggles over land, taxes, forced labor, coffee cooperatives, Christianity, education, and more. In addition, Spear explains the background to one of the most famous episodes in Tanzanian political history, the Meru Land case.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780520206199

Description

This is the first extended study of one of the most historically and culturally interesting regions of Tanzania in East Africa. Mountain Farmers is a detailed comparative history of two ethnic groups who share one mountain home--the Meru are traditionally farmers; the Arusha cattle-herders related to the Maasai. Thomas Spear's engaging study, based on recent archival and field research, ranges across several centuries of political and economic history, comparing the responses of these very different peoples to the settlement of Mount Meru, to colonial conquest, and to increasing land shortages. Spear moves away from models of social history that tend toward economic determinism, and instead seeks to understand the role of culture in socio-economic change. As he traces the history of settlement on Mt. Meru since the seventeenth century, Spear focuses on the coming of colonizers and missionaries and local resistance to them; the transition from German to British colonial rule; colonial struggles over land, taxes, forced labor, coffee cooperatives, Christianity, education, and more. In addition, Spear explains the background to one of the most famous episodes in Tanzanian political history, the Meru Land case.
Volume

: J.Curry : cloth. ISBN 9780852557365

Description

This work examines the struggle between the Meru and Arusha peoples and their German and British rulers over the issue of land and agricultural development on Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It shows how the Meru and Arashi, faced with an iron ring ofland alienated by European settlers successfully intensified their own irrigated agriculture to bring about what has been termed an indigenous agricultural revolution .

Table of Contents

  • Part One Settlement of Mount Meru: mountain farmers - Meru and Chaga in the 17th-19th centuries
  • Massai farmers - Arusha and pastoral Massai in the 18th-19th centuries. Part Two Colonialism and resistance under German rule: blood on the land - Talala and the Germans, 1881-96
  • conquest and colonization, 1896-1916
  • establishment of the mission, 1902-1916. Part Three British rule 1916-61: recolonization
  • land, population and agricultural development
  • Christians, coffee, culture and class. Part Four Politics of land and authority: struggles for the land - political and moral economies of land
  • the politics of land and authority
  • the Meru land case.
Volume

: J.Curry : pbk. ISBN 9780852557372

Description

Studies the impact of colonialism on a mountainous region of Tanzania. This work examines the struggle between the Meru and Arusha peoples and their German and British rulers over the issue of land and agricultural development on Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It shows how the Meru and Arashi, faced with an iron ring of land alienated by European settlers successfully intensified their own irrigated agriculture to bring about what has been termed an indigenous agricultural revolution. Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota

Table of Contents

  • Part One Settlement of Mount Meru: mountain farmers - Meru and Chaga in the 17th-19th centuries
  • Massai farmers - Arusha and pastoral Massai in the 18th-19th centuries. Part Two Colonialism and resistance under German rule: blood on the land - Talala and the Germans, 1881-96
  • conquest and colonization, 1896-1916
  • establishment of the mission, 1902-1916. Part Three British rule 1916-61: recolonization
  • land, population and agricultural development
  • Christians, coffee, culture and class. Part Four Politics of land and authority: struggles for the land - political and moral economies of land
  • the politics of land and authority
  • the Meru land case.

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